(Alex Homer) This is the third and final article in a series of three that look at how the latest version of Microsoft’s enterprise-level database, SQL Server 2005, now offers great support and close integration with XML as a data persistence format. This includes new ways to validate, store and

(David Needle) Intel moved beyond its core semiconductor business and acquired Sarvega, a leader in XML and Web services performance optimization. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

(Joe Gregorio) In my last column I covered how to dispatch based on mime type. That’s only part of the dispatching story. The other two major pieces of information to use when dispatching are the HTTP method and the URI. Let’s look at the HTTP method first.

(Nigel McFarlane) The World Wide Web has traditionally used a book or slideshow metaphor as the basis for navigation between hyperlinks. Clicking on a link is like flicking from one page to another in a book or magazine, or like operating a slideshow projector—click a button or link, and a new page

(Venkata Kancharla) When I was reading the MSDN.Net, I found an interesting topic on Windows services and FileSystemWatcher. So, I tried to write a Windows service that monitors the directory changes, writes an entry in the event log about the change, notifies the changes to the users by sending mai

(OmegaMan) In my job I have to write the code which will consume third party web services. In the course of working with differing companies web services I discovered that some of those would return invalid Xml data. That data was invalid due to either from an outdated schema or had some subtle prob

(Mark Goetsch) XMI is the standard that everyone has heard about but few are sure what to do with. Beginning with this article, I will demonstrate some interesting value-added ideas on the use of this standard. In future articles I will use XMI to grab information about assets from UML diagrams,

(Darryl K. Taft) The organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards this week will announce a new technical committee focused on service-oriented architecture blueprints.

(Robert Bernard and John P. Hunt) Find out how topic-based DITA XML can provide the basis for developing an information architecture for single-sourced XML learning content. Part 1 of this two-part series presented a set of extensions to DITA XML that provide the starting point for a unifying co

(Russell Butek) A Java bean has properties, or fields. These fields, unless they are primitive types, can be null. When you map a Java bean to XML, these fields become elements or attributes. Unadorned elements and attributes cannot have null values (you can sort of think of them as the equivalent o